Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The suit of T. C. Henry, formerly Of
Kansas, !" VS.. the Travellers Insurance Com
pany. involving sum Of nearly s., OOo, ON.
has been decided in favor OF Henry. The
suit has been pending for three years,
and grew out of immense lrrigating canal.
in Colorado.
Mr.. LAwnEAD. State Superintendent Of
Public Instruction, is said to be compiling
some interesting statistics touching school
| work in Kansas during the last year. The
tabulxted sheet will include reports from
every county in the State touching the fol-
lowing points: School population; number
of school districts; enrolment; average
daily attendance; number OF teachers EN-
ployed: average length OF school year;
average tax for school purposes; average
cost per capita on enroIlm .nt; expense OF
sites, baildiugs, ETC., and total expense oi
maintenance.
! OFFICER WILLIAMs, who some months
since shot saloon keeper named Scott, al
| Armourdale while attempting to arrest
him for using insulting language to ladies,
was lately tried ut WyandO.te and acquit-
! ted.
W. H. II. GHINTER, a prominent citizen
| Of Wyandotie County, was recently kille1
while hunting in Ozark County, Mo. Mr.
Grinter and q man named Requa, it is
stated, were creeping through the brush
| and mutually mistook each other for game.
Each fired load of buckshot into the other
with fatal effect. ReQua was instantly
killed and Grinter lived only few hours
after being discovered by companions.
| A GANG of men representing the Missouri
Pacific road were recently arrested at
Leavenworth for laying track in the
south part Of the city near the sugar fac-
| tory. The men claimed that they were
| simply putting in switch to reach the
| cattle yards, but it was believed that they
| were in reality endeavOring to secure the
right-of-way in order to prevent the Kan
sas City, Wyandotte Il Northwestern from
gaining access to the new Union depot.
IT is now stated that Dell Smith, the MUIR
derer of Baxter, whose body was found in
the Cottonwood river near EmpOria last
spring, has finally been captured in indiana.
ROBERT Miller an Atchison boarding
house keeper, was recently arrested on a
warrant sworn out by Joseph Donahue,
charging him with an attempt to poison
him. Donahue says that on the 9th day OF
November he drew considerable money
and went to West AtchisOn to pay off some
men working under him on the streets.
He went into Miller's place where he was
invited to drink out OF q bottle containing
whisky, but only took small swallow be-
cause it tasted bitter He left Immediately
and thought little more about the circuln-
stances until later, when a man informed
HIM that Miller and two of his bOarders
named Charles Price and Eugene Eikler
had tried to poison him, that th3 bottle he
drank from contained laudanum; it being
the intention of the trio to rob him. Dona-
hue Immediately had Miller arrested.
Miller denied the charge but stated that
Price and Eikler concOcted the scheme.
They could not be found.
AN aged German woman, Mrs. Mary Kat
lier, was burned to death at Topeka the
other night by the explosion OF lamp
which she attempted to fill after blowing
out the fame but leaving the charred wick
burning.
r. ZIBLEY, farmer, was recently killed
by the cars near Girard.
PROF SWENSoN's friends claim that his
discovery for manufacturing sugar from
sorghum was made before he was in Gov
eminent employ at Fort Scott.
EACH player in Topeka's baseball club
has been presented with gold badge on
behalf of the city for the good work they
did in the Western League in which they
won the championship.
SUPERINTENDENT WILDER, of the insur
ance department, says that companies not
authorized to do insurance business in Kan
sas arc operating extensively in various
counties of the State.
The Leavenworth Turnverein at recent
meeting unanimously passed a resolution
that the members Of the LcavenwOrti
Turnverein are opposed TO anarchism III
any form, and that they reject every accus
alton charging them as Anarchists; that
they do not favor any kind of lawlessness.
well knowing there are many other gOOC
legal means to reach the end they have II
view"
REV. F. I. 1RGALIs, pastor of the First
Congregational Church ut Emporia. and
brother of Senator ingalls,, has presented
his resignation to the Church, to take effec
January l. He has accepted the presidency
of Drury College, at Springfield, Mo.
THE November cash contributions to the
Home for Friendless Women at Leayen.
worth amounted to s623
OWING to the prevalence Of scarlet fever
the public schools Of Atchison have been
closed.
TIE Governor has pardoned Emma Hen.
dirk sentenced to life Imprisonment from
Chautauqua County for killing one Mcclure.
She had served four years in the peniteE.
tiary, and the evidence presented to the
Board of Pardons was such as to convince
them that she had been greatly WrOnSeC
woman and was justified in shooting hei
traducer
A CHARTER was recently filed for The
Beloit e. Nebraska railroad. Capital
$1,OO0.oOO.
j. P. DILLON, deputy sheriff, recently
took an overdose of morphine at Atchison,
and came near dying. Timely aid saved
his life
WILLIAM SHooF, young man residing
with his parents in Riley County, recently
committed suicide Injuries in the head,
received last spring, from which he had
not recovered, led to mental arrangement
and the deed.
THE Kansas Shorthorn Breeders Asso-
citation held its sixth annual convention at
Topeka on the 18th. 1t was the largest and
most enthusiastic meeting Of the assOcia
ton ever held.
DR. c. G. WALL has been chosen assist
ant physician at the Topeka insane asylum
to succeed d.. Punton, resigned.
TIE latest report Of the State Superin.
tendent of Public Instruction gives the
number of children in the State Ct schO0
age as 1901.
ESTIMATED value of school build ngs and
grounds in Kansas, 81, 176, 146.
THERE are 7.75l school houses in Kansas.
and 1O,501 teachers employed. The average
monthly salary paid male teachers is $40:
female teachers, $685.. There were sG67,
459 in school bonds issued the past year.